A rescue team paddles down the Swannanoa River after the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused widespread flooding, downed trees, and power outages in western North Carolina, 29 September 2024. Photo: Travis Long / The News and Observer / Reuters

Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens – North Carolina city once viewed as a safe haven for climate refugees – “Climate change is a pervasive issue that is going to affect communities all over the world – not equally – but definitely it will impact everyone, everywhere in some way”

By Kiara Alfonseca 30 September 2024 (ABC News) – Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised for its temperate mountain weather, distance far from the coast, experiencing less extreme heat and fewer wildfires. The city of around 95,000 people was believed markings of a place where those escaping […]

Nikki Wicker, co-owner of Roy's Restaurant, cleans after Hurricane Helene made landfall overnight, in Steinhatchee, Florida, 27 September 2024. Photo: Octavio Jones / REUTERS

Project 2025 proposes eliminating aid for families and businesses rebuilding after storms – Far-right road map would end vital disaster loan program

8 August 2024 (Center for American Progress) – In the devastating aftermath of Hurricane Debby, the Southeast is tasked with the difficult work of rebuilding homes, businesses, and lives. Initial reports indicate at least six people have died from the storm. Federal agencies play a critical role in providing swift and efficient support to these families and […]

A drone view shows a flooded and damaged area following Hurricane Helene in Horseshoe Beach, Florida, 28 September 2024. Photo: Marco Bello / REUTERS

Climate “abandonment zones” are coming to the American South – Whole counties across Florida and Central Texas could begin to see their total populations decline

By Abrahm Lustgarten 2 October 2024 (The New York Times) – When Hurricane Helene, the 420-mile-wide, slow-spinning conveyor belt of wind and water drowned part of Florida’s coastline and then barged its path northward through North Carolina last week, it destroyed more than homes and bridges. It shook people’s faith in the safety of living […]

Glaciologist at ETH Zurich and Head of the Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (GLAMOS) Matthias Huss check his equipment on the Rhone glacier amid climate change in Obergoms, Switzerland, 27 August 2024. Photo: Denis Balibouse / REUTERS

Swiss glacier melt exceeds average in 2024 after hot summer – “This will be a disaster for Swiss glaciers”

By Denis Balibouse and Cecile Mantovani 1 October 2024 ZURICH (Reuters) – Swiss glaciers melted at an above-average rate in 2024 as a blistering hot summer thawed through abundant snowfall, monitoring body GLAMOS said on Tuesday. Earlier this year, glaciologists had celebrated heavy winter and spring snow dumps in the Alps, hoping this would signal […]

Charles Alexie and Gerald Tom near visible coastal erosion that encroaches on Newtok village in Alaska, on 16 August 2024. Erosion and melting permafrost have largely destroyed Newtok, eating about 70 feet (21.34 meters) of land every year. Photo: Rick Bowmer / AP

Climate change destroyed an Alaska village. Its residents are starting over in a new town – “Alaska Native economic, social, and cultural ways of being, which have served so well for millennia, are now under extreme threat due to accelerated environmental change”

By Rick Bowmer and Mark Thiessen 28 September 2024 MERTARVIK, Alaska (AP) – Growing up along the banks of the Ninglick River in western Alaska, Ashley Tom would look out of her window after strong storms from the Bering Sea hit her village and notice something unsettling: the riverbank was creeping ever closer. It was […]

Aerial view of the flooded city center in Glucholazy, southern Poland, 16 September 2024. Photo: AFP / Getty Images

Entire Polish city of 44,000 asked to evacuate as Storm Boris floods wreak havoc – Death toll from floods in Europe rises to at least 16 – “If you were here, you would cry instantly because people are desperate”

By Stuti Mishra 17 September 2024 (The Independent) – Thousands of residents in a Polish city have been ordered to evacuate as floods triggered by Storm Boris continue to wreak havoc across central Europe. The mayor of Nysa, Kordian Kolbiarz, issued the evacuation order on Monday, urging all 44,000 residents to seek higher ground due […]

Houses are submerged in flood after typhoon Yagi hit Yen Bai province, northwestern Vietnam on Sunday, 8 September 2024. Photo: Do Tuan Anh / VNA / AP

Typhoon Yagi kills at least 14 in Vietnam as officials warn of heavy rain and flooding risk – more than 3 million people without electricity in northern Vietnam – One of the most powerful typhoons to hit the region over the last decade

By Aniruddha Ghosal 8 September 2024 HANOI, Vietnam (AP) – At least 14 people have died and 176 others injured in Vietnam after Typhoon Yagi slammed the country’s north, state media said Sunday, as officials warned of heavy downpours despite its waning power. Described by Vietnamese officials as one of the most powerful typhoons to […]

Map showing the 2m temperature anomaly in the Arctic on 11 August 2024. Thierry Goose observed new monthly records were set in Nunavut: 30.7°C Arviat (previous record was 30.4°C on 1 August 1985) and 30.6°C Chesterfield Inlet (previous record was 28.7°C on 3 August 2020). Graphic: Climate Change Institute / University of Maine

Unprecedented number of heat records broken around world this year – “Far from dwindling with the end of El Niño, records are falling at even much faster pace now compared to late 2023”

By Jonathan Watts 14 August 2024 (The Guardian) – A record 15 national heat records have been broken since the start of this year, an influential climate historian has told the Guardian, as weather extremes grow more frequent and climate breakdown intensifies. An additional 130 monthly national temperature records have also been broken, along with […]

A man gets in his car in Dione to flee looming flames as huge wildfires bear down on the Greek capital of Athens on 12 August 2024. Photo: Angelos TZORTZINIS / AFP

Wildfires engulf Greek mountain as they approach capital – People flee 80-foot flames near Athens as they spread “like lightning” – “It started from one point and suddenly the whole village was surrounded”

PENTELI, Greece, 12 August 2024 (AFP) – Thick grey smoke engulfed Mount Pentelicus that dominates Athens on Monday as the Greek capital battled the infernal fallout from what promises to be its hottest summer on record. A 30-kilometre (20-mile) long line of fires, some with flames more than 25 metres (80 feet) high, was moving […]

Bethany Kozma, a conservative activist and former deputy chief of staff at the U.S. Agency for International Development, appears in a Project 2025 training video denying the seriousness of climate change and saying the movement to combat it is really part of a ploy to “control people.” Kozma says, “If the American people elect a conservative president, his administration will have to eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere.” Photo: Heritage Foundation / ProPublica

Inside Project 2025’s secret training videos – “Eradicate climate change references from absolutely everywhere”

By Andy Kroll, ProPublica, and Nick Surgey 10 August 2024 (ProPublica) – Project 2025, the controversial playbook and policy agenda for a right-wing presidential administration, has lost its director and faced scathing criticism from both Democratic groups and former President Donald Trump. But Project 2025’s plan to train an army of political appointees who could […]

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